Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
10471440 Social Science & Medicine 2012 13 Pages PDF
Abstract
► This study examines the interactive contextual effect of income inequality on physical functioning and activity limitations in the U.S. ► Increasing income inequality strengthens the protective effects of family income, employment, college education, and marriage on these two measures of health. ► High school education's protective effect (relative to less than a high school education) weakens in the context of increasing income inequality. ► Increasing income inequality exacerbates men's disadvantages in physical functioning and activity limitations. ► These findings shed light on research about growing health disparities in the U.S. in the last several decades.
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